Resisting Stigma and Homophobia: Dr. Samuel's Verdict, Hyderabad Panchayat (Jeevanandhan Rajendran)

Resisting Stigma and Homophobia: Dr. Samuel's Verdict, Hyderabad Panchayat

Director: Jeevanandhan Rajendran

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Action Plus, a network of 14 organisations working on HIV/AIDS in India, conducted a series of People’s Panchayats in 2009, which sought to understand people's battles against Stigma and Homophobia through the voices of survivors and resistors. The Panchayats sought to address the devaluation of livelihoods and life systems of entire communities of people who practice alternate sexualities, and the erosion of rights or dignity.

This series of People’s Panchayats was held in five cities in India. The first one was in Bangalore on January 28, 2009, the second in Hyderabad on February 6, 2009, the third in Chennai on March 21, 2009 and the fourth on April 11, 2009 in Pune. The fifth and final one was held in New Delhi on April 24, 2009.

Each of the Panchayats followed a similar structure. The interactive meetings were structured to have affected members from sexual minority communities share their personal experiences of living with stigma and homophobia. These were the deposers. Then the two-member expert panel shared their thoughts and ideas based on their experience in the field. The audience comprising of the general public, NGOs, media, opinion leaders and religious communities made their queries and comments at the end of the deposition. There was a brief audience interaction following which the jury or the panch gave its ‘verdict’.

In this segment, Dr. Samuel, a member of the Hyderabad Panch, shares his views on the testimonials heard.

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People's Panchayats on Resisting Stigma and Homophobia; Action Plus - a Coalition for Rights, Education and Care in HIV and AIDS. In this segment,Dr. Samuel, a member of the Bangalore Panch, shares his views vis-a-vis the testimonials heard.
When human being was created, he based it on three. First was sleep when tired, eat when hungry and the third is sex. This is not only for human being but also for animals. Each one when they're born imbibe characters from the parents, genes. So you need not feel bad about your state, its not your mistake. So this is a gene that you've got from one of your parents.
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